Objective: To examine how dissenters began to challenge the power of the Puritans.
Do Now: p. 30 Why did Thomas Hooker leave Massachusetts, and where did he go?
Roger Williams
Thomas Hooker
Anne Hutchinson
• In 1636, Thomas Hooker left Massachusetts because he thought that the governor had too much power.
Statue of Thomas Hooker, Hartford, Connecticut
Famous Puritan Dissenters
Thomas Hooker
• Hooker set up the colony of Connecticut.
Roger Williams
• Roger Williams believed in the “separation of church and state”. (the belief that the government and religion should have no official relationship.)�
• Rhode Island became a refuge (a safe place) for people seeking religious freedom.
• In 1635, Williams was ordered back to England.
• Instead, he left Massachusetts and formed the colony of Rhode Island.
Roger Williams purchased his colony from the natives, then made all welcome.
The congregation was founded in 1658 by Sephardim who fled the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal and were searching for a haven from religious persecution in the Caribbean.
Touro Synagogue, Newport, RI
This statue of Roger Williams memorializes him in Roger Williams Park, Providence, Rhode Island
First Baptist Church in America. Williams founded the congregation in 1638 (postcard from 1909)
Anne Hutchinson
• Anne Hutchinson openly talked about and criticized the teachings of the Puritan ministers.
Anne Hutchinson on trial
• In 1637, Hutchinson was banished from Massachusetts.
• In 1638, Hutchinson moved to Rhode Island.
After her husband's death, Anne Hutchinson moved to Pelham Bay, New York, where in 1643 she and five of her children were killed in an Indian attack on the colony.
Like Anne Hutchinson, Mary Dyer was banished from Massachusetts. Eventually, she was hanged for challenging Puritan orthodoxy.